Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jean Gabin, Jacques Rispal,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished...

Actors : Hart Bochner, Gilbert Roland, David Hemmings, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Patricia Pierangeli, Marlène Jobert, Christine Fabréga,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Saverio Marconi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a...

Actors : David Morse, John Savage, Diana Scarwid, Amy Wright,
Directors : Richard Donner,

After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds ...

Actors : Andreas Mannkopff, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Actors : Evert Anderson, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Thommy Berggren,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.

Actors : Richard Burton, Valentina Cortese, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Galabru, Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Actors : Krister Ekman, Leif Naeslund, Christina Lindberg, Monica Ekman,
Directors : Dan Wolman,

Maid in Sweden tells the story of Inga, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who leaves her rural home to spend a weekend in the Swedish capital. An innocent with no experience, but with prodigious ...

Actors : Ryouko Ima, Yayoi Watanabe, Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

In order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.

Actors : Country Joe and the Fish, John Rubinstein, Patricia Quinn, Don Johnson,
Directors : George Englund,

Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.

Actors : Ismaila Diagne, Matoura Dia, Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap ...

Actors : Patti D'Arbanville, Bernard Giraudeau, Mathieu Carrière, Mona Kristensen,
Directors : David Hamilton,

A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Bindu, Sharmila Tagore, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Shashikala, Rekha, Ashok Kumar,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Nirmala Gupta runs her household and family in a very strict and authoritarian manner. While most of her family resent this, they do obey her and carry out her instructions, so as to be on ...

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, David Burns, Jack Warden, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Évelyne Dandry, Valérie Dumas,
Directors : David Hamilton,

With the outbreak of WWII, the sudden call to arms will send the men of a family's estate to the front, leaving a curious adolescent alone with the remaining women of the house, in need of a warm embrace and, possibly, a daring kiss.

Actors : Jan Skotnicki, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the ...